Not enough people are talking about the fact that WordPress gains 3-4% market share *of the entire web* annually.

Let me rephrase: WordPress adds 1 Shopify **every year**.

w3techs.com/technologies/history… t.co/Pgottw6ZJc

JS Devs: Would not be caught dead using PHP

Also JS Devs: Furiously reinventing PHP since 2013

Engineers are supposed to be practical but we do so much ineffective bullshit.

There’s no point creating a reusable abstraction if it ends up hard to use.

There’s no point arguing about perf if you dont have a representative benchmark.

Hold your own beliefs accountable please

Don’t bother learning another frontend framework, they’re too similar. If you know React you’re all set for opportunities

A backend framework like Rails or Django or Laravel, would round you out a lot more as a developer*

*I have yet to do this myself

@eggheadio #eggheadChat twitter.com/willjohnsonio/status…

I’ve been doing some CSS inspecting of some pretty looking sites, focusing on content width.

Genuinely surprised nobody seems to use the char unit, e.g. `max-width: 80ch`? Instead everybody seems to use pixels/%.

Why? Isn’t the normal advise to aim for 50-80 chars per line? t.co/b2UKrfKWeq

Discovered this very interesting usage of `switch` in a codebase, basically making it possible to match cases on arbitrary logic instead of an exact match of string or number literals.

github.com/eggheadio/gatsby-them…

is this a commonly known pattern? First time I’ve ever seen this. t.co/4yywO4fIDG